5/28/07 Braves (James) @ Brewers (Capuano): 1:05 CDT

[adambr2]

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Cappy looks horrible lately with command.

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Actually, I was just going to mention that other than the leadoff walk, it looks to me like Cappy brought his good stuff today.

[RoseBowlMtg]

What's up with Braun unclipping then reclipping his gloves after every pitch? Then doing it after a throw to first.

[adambr2]

Bill Hall, you need to be taken to kangaroo court every time you deliberately try to pull the ball from now on.

[BraunROY]

I noticed that too. I don't think its really that big of a deal. Unlike Nomar it doesn't take him 20 minutes in between pitches to do. I also noticed that between every pitch in the field he takes his glove off, don't really know what to make of that?

[crewcrazy]

Nice duck fart by Cappy to load the bases...let's take care of business, Rick.

[yfinn6]

Weeks looks a little bit lost at the plate today.

[Vgmastr]

James isn't going anywhere near the inside corner against the righties. Everything is on the outside corner. Weeks and Hall have to stop trying to pull everything or it'll be a long day for them.

[recte44]

No one really talks much about Chuck James. He looks a lot like Cappy at his best to me.

 

Left handed control specialists are fun when they're on their game.

[adambr2]

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Weeks looks a little bit lost at the plate today.

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Today? Rickie has not hit with RISP all season. At all.

[Bernman23]

Weeks RISP: .209/.349 slugging and dropping

 

RISP + 2 outs: .194/.226 slugging and dropping

 

close and late: .150/.542 OPS (deceptively high really)

 

proving why I've always called him the anticlutch superstar

 

Estrada should have scored, but he showed no awareness of the situation. As usual lately, we're doing everything to prevent us from scoring runs.

[augie46]

In his two at bats today I think Weeks would have swung, and tried to pull it, if the pitcher had thrown to first. We need to think opposite way against this guy.

[unsanitary999]

I had typed in, "Well, at least the good news is that Capuano is keeping everything down..." as he throws two straight high fastballs to Andruw Jones (with the second being a homer to right).

 

No biggie.

[Vgmastr]

Estrada sucks at pitch calling. Why call a high fastball, to Andruw Jones no less, after Cappy has done fantastic all day keeping the hitters off balance with the changeup? High fastballs are not Cappy's game.

[adambr2]

Shouldn't be a biggie, but 2 runs in 6 innings seems to be a tall order right now for our currently invisible offense.

[Oldcity]

How did Andruw Jones even make contact with that pitch? It was four inches outside and shoulder-high.

 

Chuck James is staying a few inches outside and the Brewers keep flailing at it.

[brewizard]

Invisible offense?

 

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[Oldcity]

Chuck James? Seriously?

[adambr2]

Is this Chuck James, or Chuck Norris?

 

7 K's through 4.

 

This is really getting embarrassing.

[adambr2]

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How did Andruw Jones even make contact with that pitch? It was four inches outside and shoulder-high.

 

Chuck James is staying a few inches outside and the Brewers keep flailing at it.

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Which is baffling to me. Go the other way with it, guys! He hasn't come inside all day!

[SlideBernieSlide]

This offense is painful to watch today. Smoltz and Hudson after this. Ugh!

[pebadger]

If things don't change in the 5th, the Brewers streak of innings without a lead will have ballooned to 50.

 

And 45 of those 50 innings have been innings in which the Brewers trailed (in other words, they've only tied at the end of 5 of the last 50 innings).

 

Too depressed to look back further than that.

 

Edit: Oops didn't add the first 3 innings of today. SO they've been tied at teh end of 8 of those innings . Everyone feel much better?

[adambr2]

Chuck James keeps it alive with a 2 out basehit. Cute.

[TheCrew07]

Take the out at home... whomever made the call to cut that one off made the wrong call.

[adambr2]

I cannot believe how fundamentally bad we are right now. A team struggling to hit needs to at least create their own breaks, which we are not doing.

[bobskube]

Can anyone help me out here? I am really speechless for the first time ever. Why are we so bad now all at once? Everything is bad.

 

Defense, pitching, baserunning, managing, plate discipline, and hitting all bad.

 

Bill Hall continues to make me wonder too. Is there any good news out there besides the Central being god awful?